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On Saturday 16th September the whole Club came together at the Watford Colosseum for the Club’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. There was much to see – how far we have come since the Club was founded in 1977.

Proceedings were opened with a Big Head Buddha Lion Dance.

Each Instructor put on a demonstration of our traditional patterns both alone and with their students.

The demonstrations were followed by a spectacular Traditional Chinese Lion Dance featuring both long and short weapons.

Photos of the evening were taken by Ben Hallifax who has uploaded many more images to Flickr – the link will be sent out by email to all subscribed to our newsletter so you can spot yourselves and your fellow students.

And watch this space for more images to come of the Club demonstrations and the Lion Dance.

Big Head Buddha awakens the Golden Lion to start the 40th Anniversary Celebration, to the traditional solo drumming of Instructor Sharon Ngo.

Following another successful training camp in Crete this Summer, Carmine Pariante was tasked with writing about his experience – you can spot him in the photo listening intently. Rather than a day-by-day, blow-by-blow account, he has decided to throw down the gauntlet to everyone else…

“I am too busy. I am too old. I am too young. I need to spend time with my family. I need to study. I need to work. I don’t like the heat. I don’t like the food. I can’t swim. I have not trained enough yet. I have trained too much already.

Have I given you enough excuses not to come to the Crete camp? Good! Now let me give you some real reasons why you should come to camp, Read More

Can Kung Fu actually make you younger? We always thought it would make us immortal – but younger? Isn’t that going the wrong way? Well, Gary Oliver who trains with Instructor Karim Daoud at FWC Watford Club, thinks that Kung Fu has made him younger – and he’s got proof.

“I joined Kung Fu later in life (at 55 (well, almost 56) I am the Grandpapa of my Club!). It’s never too late and I am so glad that I am part of this journey.

Having been an avid sportsperson all my life I have undertaken many sports including rugby, football, canoeing, cycling, and then the curse of the GYM…. none of them really conducive to Kung Fu! So 6 years ago, one cold January a leaflet dropped through my door and caught my eye….so I gave Kung Fu a try. Read More

Depression and training – can you have both? Mental health is private and personal. Training in class is public and visible. No-one knows how you are feeling, what you are saying to yourself inside your head. How could the tough confrontational world of Kung Fu possibly help? We train hard, there is physical and mental pressure to focus and move, to improve technique week after week. We stand side-by-side in class, trying to keep up, catch on to new skills, do one more push-up than last time. So what about all the research being done on the effects of training on depression, such as in January’s issue of Scientific American Mind?

Depression is such a delicate and complex subject that I very quickly became aware of how challenging this article would be to write. I realised I would have to show people how Kung Fu can benefit someone suffering from depression without making Kung Fu sound like ‘the cure’. Read More

The April 2017 FWC Kung FU Competition was once again held in South London. Last year Femi Adeoye, who trains with Richard Wagstaff at FWC London South wrote up his account, So as not to disappoint his public, he has repeated the reportage for this year’s event. So here is Femi’s blow-by-blow account from his very personal perspective – pun fully intended.

“Another year, another FWC club competition. I came into the day off the back of my relative success in the last competition, just over a year ago. My aim for the day was to better my bronze and gold of 2016. The day started (oh so) early at 9am. After an inspirational performance by the instructors which saw them all displaying a different pattern simultaneously, the competition was officially underway.

To put this into context, they have been awarded so rarely in the past, that I had honestly decided that they were, in fact, the stuff of legend, and that I would probably never receive one.

So I was, as you can imagine, absolutely delighted (and, if I’m honest, a little thunderstruck) after 28 years of training to finally have the honour of Chief Instructor Dennis Ngo first tell me that I had earned it during lunch on Instructor Camp in Egypt, and then tie it around my waist in Sunday Class at Angel. Read More

Welcome to the Year of the Rooster! Another Chinese New Year, another animal from the Zodiac – another New Year Card design.

2017 is the year of the Red Fire Rooster. Inspiration for the drawing was taken from Seti and Sharon’s discussions around how chickens (hens and roosters/cockerels) behave in real life. Although “chicken” is synonymous with “coward” in day-to-day banter these birds do not merit such disparagement. Read More

We haven’t had one of these for a while – a training challenge! Instructor Joshua Villar set one for himself – and without wishing to steal his thunder (whisper it) it’s a knuckle walk. Why would anyone want to do that (as Josh asked himself when he was half way through)? Well, the simple answer would be that walking on your knuckles toughens them up – it’s one way of doing it. But maybe there was also an element of exploring pain thresholds and endurance. Either way, like that other famous endurance event, Le Tour de France, you can read about it rather than do it, and wince at the photos in the comfort of your own home.

“I will set the scene. A lone Kung Fu Instructor stands on top of a hill Read More

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